^^°^ 'o • A "^ •'•' A? '<>-•. .*=>'^, ^^' .* -oV*' • \/ ,*■ *'>. , V ' • c^-^.* '^bv^ ^'' %/ .'^°- \/ .'Jfe-' ""W^ ./"-^. ,«^ >. .Hq< \.^* -* '^7?r*' A .-^^ ^oV^ ■^o .•4^4/X^. ^ ^g^;?K^:i;^^f^ '''* |jomc CoIU^gc Scries. 9/1 I Number — .-^ .^^ % ..-..^^^^.^^^^^^^^ Sixty-Two, gl READINGS FROM TENNYSON WALDEN & STOWE S?^^!?a%^?!^^!jj^i^^St^ m^ .QPVaKiHV. g^ »Jif [<^ NEW YORK: %\ PHILLIPS&HUNT. ^ j CINCINNATI: i*J^' >apers oi The "Home College Series" will contain one hundred short papers" a u-ide range of subjects— biographical, historical, scientific, literary, domes, lie, political, and religious. Indeed the religious tone will characterize all of them. They are written for every body— for all whose leisure is limiteri, but wMio desire lo use the minutes for the enrichment of life. These papers contain seeds from the best gardens in all the world of human knowledge, and if .(lopped wisely into good .soil, wi'l bring forth harvests of beauty and value. Tliey are for the young— especially for young peopie (ana older peop too) who are out of the schools, who are full of '-business" and "care- wlio are in danger of reading nothing, or of readiyg a sensational liiei-ature Miat is worse than nothing. One of these papers a week read over and over, thought and talked about at "odd times," will give in one year a vast fund of information, an intel- lectual quickening, worth even more tiian the mere knowledge acquired, i taste for solid re;Kl ng, many hours of simple and wholesome pleasure, at ability to t:dk intelligently and helpfully to one's friends. Pastors may organize ''Home College" classes, or "Lyceum Readii Tnions," or "Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circles," and help t ug people to read and think and talk and live to worthier purpo.se. A young man may have his own little "college" all by himself, read tli of tracts one after the other, (there will soon be one hundred of th^ readv,) examine himself on them by the " Thought-Outline to Help rhe Mei oiy." and thus gain knowledge, and, what ia better, a love of knowledge. And what a young man may do in this respect, a young w^oman, and boii' old men and old women, may do. Vr ^^ r ,.,r« J- H. ViXCENT, JSew \ork, Jan., 18S3. ^ ou S' ries Copyright, 18S3, by Puillifs & Hunt, New York. |omt CoIUgt Strits. Hiimbcr Sbtij-tlxio. READINGS FBOM TENNYSON. A SELECTION. FROM "TIIK death OP KING ABTHCB." More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. Wherefore, let thy voice Rise like a fountain for me night and day. For what are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Both for themselves and those who call them friend? For so the whole round earth is every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God. SONNET, Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon, And bitter blasts the screaming autumn whirl, All night through archways of the bridged pearl. And portals of pure silver, walks the moon. "Walk on, my soul, nor crouch to agony, Turn cloud to light, and bitterness to joy, And dross to gold with glorious alchemy, Basing thy throne above the world's annoy. Reign thou above tlie storms of sorrow and ruth That roar beneath; unshaken peace hath won thee; So shalt thou pierce the woven glooms of truth; So shall the blessing of the meek be on thee ; So in thine hour of dawn, the body's youth, An honorable eld shall come upon thee. READINGS FROM TENNYSON. ODE TO MEMORY. 1. Thou who stealest fire, From the fountains of the past, To glorify the present; 0, haste, Visit my low desire ! Strengthen me, enlighten mel I faint in this obscurity. Thou dewy dawn of memory. 2. Come not as thou camest of late, Flinging the gloom of yesternight On the white day ; but robed in softened light Of orient state. Whilome thou camest with the morning mist, Even as a maid, whose stately brow The dew-impearled winds of dawn have kissed, When she, as thou, Stays on her floating locks the lovely freight Of overflowing blooms, and earliest shoots Of orient green, giving safe pledge of fruits, "Which in winter-tide shall star The black earth with brilliance rare. "Whilorae thou camest with the morning mist, And with the evening cloud, Showering thy gleaned wealth into my open breast, (Those peerless flowers which in the rudest wind Never grow sere, When rooted in the garden of the mind. Because they are the earliest of the year.) Nor was the night tliy shroud. In sweet dreams softer than unbroken rest Thou leddest by the hand thine infant Hope. The eddying of her garments caught from thee The light of thy great presence ; and the cope Of the half-attained futurity, Though deep not fathomless, READINGS FROM TENNYSON. Was cloven with the million stars which tremble O'er the deep mind of dauntless infancy. Small thought was there of life's distress; For sure she deemed no mist of earth could dull Those spirit-thrilling eyes so keen and beautiful: Sure she was nigher to heaven's spheres, Listening the lordly music flowing from The illimitable years. strengthen me, enhghten me 1 1 faint in this obscurity, Thou dewy dawn of memory. Come forth I charge thee, arise. Thou of the many tongues, the myriad eyes ! Thou comest not with shows of flaunting vines Unto mine inner eye, Divinest Memory! Thou wert not nursed by the water-fall Which ever sounds and shines A pillar of white light upon tlie wall Of purple cliffs, aloof descried : Come from the woods that belt the gray hill-side, The seven elms, the poplars four That stand beside my father's door. And chietly from the brook that loves To purl o'er matted cress and ribbed sand, Or dimple in the dark of rushy coves. Drawing into his narrow earthen urn, In every elbow and turn, The filtered tribute of the rough woodland. 1 hither lead thy feet ! Pour round mine ears the livelong bleat Of the thick-fleeced sheep from wattled folds, Upon the rigid wolds. When the first matin-song hath wakened loud Over tlie dark dewy earth forlorn. What time the amber morn Forth gushes from beneath a low-hung cloud. READINGS FROM TENNYSON. Large dowries doth tlie raptured eye To the young spirit present When first she is wed; And like a bride of old In triumph led, With music and sweet showers Of festal flowers, Unto the dwelling she must sway, Well hast thou done, great artist Memory, In setting round thy first experiment Witli royal frame-work of wrought gold ; Needs must thou dearly love thy first essay, And foremost in thy various gallery Place it, where sweetest sunlight falls Upon the storied walls; For the discovery And newness of thine art so pleased thee, That all which thou hast drawn of fairest Or boldest since, but lightly weighs With thee unto the love thou bearest Tlie first-born of thy genius. Artist-like, Ever retiring thou dost gaze On the prime labor of thine early days : No matter what the sketch might be ; Whether the high field on the bushless Pike, Or even a sand-built ridge Of heaped hills that mound the sea, Overblown with murmurs harsh. Or even a lowly cottage whence we see Stretched wide and wild the waste enormous marsh, Where from the frequent bridge, Like emblems of infinity, The trenched waters run from sky to sky ; Or a garden bowered close With plaited alleys of the trailing rose, Long alleys falling down to twilight grots, Or opening upon level plots Of crowned lilies, standing near Purple-spiked lavender: Whither in after life retired RENDINGS FROM TENNT80N. From brawling storms, From weary wind, With youthful fancy reinspired, We may hold converse with all forms Of the many-sided mind, And those whom passion hath not Winded, Subtle-thoughted, myriad- minded. My friend, with you to live alone. Were how much better than to own A crown, a scepter, and a throne 1 strengthen me, enlighten me I 1 faint in tliis obscurity. Thou dewy dawn of memory. ULYSSES. It little profits that an idle king. By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Matched with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. I cannot reat from travel : I will drink Life to the lees : all times I have enjoyed Greatly, have suffered greatly, both with those That loved me, and alone ; on shore, and when Through scudding drifts the rainy Hyadea Vext the dim sea : I am become a name ; For always roaming wiih a hungry heart Much have I seen and known ; cities of men And manners, climates, councils, governments, Myself not least, but honored of them all ; And drunk delight of battle with my peers, Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy. I am a part of all that I have met ; Yet all experience is an arch where through Gleams that untraveled world, whose margin fades Forever and forever when I move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end. To rust unburnished, not to shine in use! As thougli to breathe were life. Life piled on life Were all too little, and of one to me READINOS FROM TENNYSON. Little remains ; but every hour is saved From that eternal silence, something more, Of aJl the western stars, until I die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down : It may be we sliall toucli the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Though mueli is taken, much abides ; and though A bringer of new things ; and vile it were For some three suns to store and hoard myself, And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge, like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought. This is my son, mine own Telemachus, To whom I leave the scepter and the isle — Well-loved of me, discerning to fulfill This labor, by slow prudence to make mild A rugged people, and through soft degrees Subdue them to the useful and the good. Most blameless is he, centered in the sphere Of common duties, decent not to fail In oflBces of tenderness, and pay Meet adoration to my household gods, When I am gone. He works his work, I mine. There liee the port : the vessel puflfs her sail ; There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners. Souls that have toiled, and wrought, and thought with me- That ever with a frolic welcome took The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed Free hearts, free forelieads — you and I are old; Old age hath yet his honor and his toil : Death closes all : but something ere the end. Some work of noble note, may yet be done, Not unbecoming men that strove with gods. The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks: The long day wanes : the slow moon climbs : the deep Moans round willi many voices. Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows ; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths. We are not now that strength which in old days READINGS FROM TENNYSON. Moved earth and heaven ; that which we are, we are ; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to tiud, and not to yield. THE BUGLE SONG. FROM "the PKINOE88." The splendor falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story: The long light shakes across the lakes • And the wild cataract leaps in glory. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying. hark, hear I how thin and clear, And thinner, clearer, farther going 1 sweet and far from cliff and scar The horns of Elfland faintly blowing 1 Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying: Blow, bugle ; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying. love, they die in yon rich sky, They faint on hill or field or river : Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow forever and forever. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying. And answer, echoes, answer, dying, dying, dying. Break, break, hreak. On thy cold gray stones, Sea I And I would that ray tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me. well for the fisherman's boy. That he shouts with his sister at play I well for the sailor lad. That he sings in his boat on the bay ! READINOS FROM TENNYSON. And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill ; But for the touch of a vanished hand, And the sound of a voice that is still 1 THE BROOK. I COME from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley. By thirty hills I hurry down, Or slip between the ridges, By twenty thorps, a little towo, And half a hundred bridges. Till last by Philip's farm I flow To join the brimming river. For men may come and men may go, But I go on forever. 1 chatter over stony ways, In little sharps and trebles, I bubble into eddying bays, I babble on the pebbles. "With many a curve my banks I fret By many a field and fallow, And many a fairy foreland set With willow-weed and mallow. I chatter, chatter, as I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on forever. T wind about, and in and out. With here a blossom sailing, And here and there a lusty trout, And here and there a grayling. READINGS FROM TENNYSON, And here and there a foamy flake Upon me, as I travel With many a silvery waterbreak Above the golden gravel. And draw thera all along, and flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on forever. I steal by lawns and grassy plots, I slide by hazel covers ; I move the sweet forget-me-nots That grow for happy lovers. I slip, I slide, T gloom, I glance, Among my skimming swallows; I make the netted sunbeam dance Against my sandy shallows. I murmur under moon and stars In brambly wildernesses ; I lirrger by my shining bars ; I loiter round my cresses. And out again I curve and flow" To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on forever. SELECTIONS FROM "IN MEMORIAM. Strong Son of God, immortal Love, Whom we, tliat have not seen thy face, By faith, and faith alone, embrace. Believing where we cannot prove ; Thine are these orbs of light and shade; Thou madest life in man and brute ; Thou madest Death ; and lo, thy foot Is on the skull which thou hast made. 10 EEADINGS FROM TENFY80N. Thou will not leave us in the dust: Thou madest man, he knows not why ; He thinks he was not made to die ; And thou hast made him : thou art just. Thou seemest human and divine, The highest, holiest manhood, thou : Our wills are ours, we know not how ; Our wills are ours, to make them thine. Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be : They are but broken lights of thee, And thou, O Lord, art more than they. "We have but faith : we cannot know ; For knowledge is of things we see; And yet we trust it comes from thee, A beam in darkness : let it grow. Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us d svell ; That mind and soul, according well. May make one music as before, But vaster. We are fools and slight; We mock thee when we do not fear: But help thy foolish ones to bear ; Help thy vain worlds to bear thy light. Forgive what seemed my sin in me ; What seemed my worth since I began; For merit lives from man to man, And not from man, Lord, to thee. Forgive my grief for one removed, Thy creature, whom I found so fair; I trust he lives in thee, and there I find him worthier to be loved. Forgive these wild and wandering cries, Confusions of a wasted youth; Forgive them where they fail in truth, And in thy wisdom make me wise. HEADINGS FROM TENNYSON. 11 I HELD it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things. But who shall so forecast the years, And find in loss a gain to match ? Or reach a hand through time to catch The far-off interest of tears. Let Love clasp Grief lest both be drowned, Let darkness keep her raven gloss : Ah, sweeter to be drunk with loss, To dance with death, to beat the ground, Than that the victor Hours should scora The long result of love, and boast, "Behold the man that loved and lost But all he was is overworn." LXXVIII. *' More than my brothers are to me," — Let this not vex thee, noble heart ! I know thee of what force thou art To hold the costliest love in fee. But thou and I are one in kind, As molded like in nature's mint ; And hill and wood and field did print The same sweet forms in either mind. For us the same cold streamlet curled Through all its eddying coves ; the same All winds that roam the twilight came In whispers of the beaiiteous world. At one dear knee we proffered vows. One lesson from one book we learned, Ere childhood's flaxen ringlet turned To black and brown on kindred brows. 12 READINGS FROM TENNYSON. And so my wealth resembles tliine, But he was rich where I was poor, And he supplied my want the more As his unlikeness fitted mine. Ring out wild bells to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light ; The year is dying in the night; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow : The year is going, let him go ; Ring out the false, ring in the true. Ring out the grief that saps the mind, For those that here we _s)^no more; Ring out the feud of rich arid poor, Ring in redress to all mankfld. Ring out a slowly dying cause. And ancient forms of party strife ; Ring in the nobler modes of life. With sweeter manners, purer laws. Ring out the want, the care, the sin, The faithless coldness of the times ; Ring out, ring out my mournful rhymes, But ring the fuller minstrel in. Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite ; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good. Ring out old shapes of foul disease ; Ring out the narrowing lust of gold ; Ring out the thousand wars of old. Ring in the thousand years of peace. READINGS FROM TENNYSON. 13 Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand: Ring out the darkness of the land, Ring in the Christ that is to be. CXIII. "Who loves not Knowledge ? Who shall rail Against her beauty ? May she mix With men and prosper I Who shall fix Her pillars? Let her work prevail. But on her forehead sits a fire : She sets her forward countenance And leaps into the future chance, Submitting all things to desire. Half-grown as yet, a child, and vain, She cannot fight the fear of death. What is she, cut from love and faith. But some wild Pallas from the brain. Of Demons ? fiery-hot to burst All barriers in her onward race For power. Let her know her place ; She is the second, not the first. A higher hand must make her mild. If all be not in vain ; and guide Her footsteps, moving side by side With wisdom, like the younger child : For she is earthly of tlie mind. But Wisdom heavenly of the soul. friend, who camest to thy goal So early, leaving me behind, I would the great world grew like thee, Who grewest not alone in power And knowledge, but by year and hour In reverence and in charity. 14 READINGS FROM TENNT80N. CXVII. Contemplate all this work of Time, The giant laboring in his youth ; Nor dream of humtm love and truth, As dying Nature's earth and lime ; But trust that those we call the dead Are breathers of an ampler day, Forever nobler ends. They say, The solid earth whereon we tread In tracts of fluent heat began. And grew to seeming-random forms. The seeming prey of cychc storms, Till at the last arose the man; Who throve and branched from clime to clime, The herald of a higher race, And of himself in higher place K so he type this work of time Within himself, from more to more; Or, crowned with attributes of woe Like glories, move his course, and show That life is not as idle ore. But iron dug from central gloom, And heated hot with burning fears. And dipped in baths of hissing tears, And battered with the shocks of doom To shape and use. Arise and fly The reeling Faun, the sensual feast ; Move upward, working out the beast. And let the ape and tiger die. FROM THE "ODE ON THE DEATH OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON." Lo, the leader in these glorious wars Now to glorious burial slowly borne. Followed by the brave of other lands, He, on whom from both her open hands READINGS FROM TENNYSON. 15 Lavish Honor showered all her stars, And affluent Fortune emptied all her horn. Yea. let all good things await Him who cares not to be great, But as he saves or serves the state. Not once or twice in our rough island-story, The path of duty was the way to glory : He that walks it, only thirsting For the right, and learns to deaden Love of self, before his journey closes, He shall find the stubborn thistle bursting Into glossy purples, which outredden All voluptuous garden-roses. Not once or twice in our fair island-story, The path of duty was the way to glory : He, that ever following her commands, On with toil of heart and knees and hands, Through the long gorge to the far light has won His path upward, and prevailed. Shall find the toppling crags of Duty scaled Are close upon the shining table-lands To which our God himself is moon and sun. Such was he : his work is done. But while the races of mankind endure, Let his great example stand Colossal, seen of every land. And keep the soldier firm, the statesman pure; Till in all lands and through all human story The path of duty be the way to glory : And let the land whose hearths he saved from shame For many and many an age proclaim At civic revel and pomp and game, And when the long-illumined cities flame, Their ever-loyal iron leader's fame. With honor, honor, honor, honor to him, Eternal honor to his name. 16 READINOS FROM TENNYSON. NOTE AND COMMENT. "All artists, as well as authors in prose and verse, labor in their days under the disadvantage involved in the fact that people have been singing, carving, painting now for some three thousand years, and that all themes and all words are getting used up. The vast deluges of literature of tlie hour — newspapers, magazines, novels, books of travel — which flood all high- ways, take the edge and brilliancy and freshness and power from word and image. Such is the condition under which literary artists of these times must work. Some men are driven by it to wild extravagance, like Walt Whitman ; but the more general effect is that which has been produced in the case of Tennyson, namely, to enforce an intensity of elaboration un- known in former times. The great poetic schools of England have always favored high finish, but no poet since Spenser, with the doubtful exception of Keats, has finished so carefully as Tennyson. H: DC * * * * * " Who will say that it is the landscape that makes the poet, and not the poet that sees tints of loveliness in, draws tones of melody from, the drear- iest landscape, after Tennyson has found so much beauty in one of those drowsy brooks that ' purl ' through cresses and over sand a few feet below the level of the meadow? It is the love that lends the charm — the affec- tion of a good heart for all that was associated with the peace and kind- ness of a happy home. There is, besides, as the poet himself informs us, a charm for the young describer in those subjects on which his capacity as a word-artist were first exercised. Ruskin says that Turner's drawing of hills, even when he had to represent the stupendous masses of the Alps, was to the last influenced by the forms of hill which he had learned to draw m Yorkshire in his youth ; and Tennyson, addressing the ' great artist mem- ory,' adds in narrow compass, but with marvelous opulence, vividness, and precision of detail, a variety of aspects of Lincolnshire County, from the windy dunes that barricade the sea, to the garden which had been coaxed into beauty by tender culture, when the wind of the wold swoons and dies amid scents of rose and lavender. * * * * * * * "Like Carlyle in prose, Tennyson in poetry represents a triumphant reac- tion against the spirit and influence of Byron. ♦ •*'* * * ** "I should say that, among the pillars of a reconstituted society which Ten- nyson has labored to set up, the most conspicuous have been responsibility to God and reverent trust in the Supreme ; faithfulness and constancy in the marriage relationship; mutual affection and mutual fitness, in contradis- tinction to worldly advantage, as the terms and motives of the marriage tie ; love of mankind, love of country, enthusiasm for knowledge, faith in freedom, and hope of immortality."— Peter Bayne. oxai-^XTT'.A.xTQXT.A. rrsi5s:T?-:BOOHis. 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